Chasing Colorado’s Native Trout with Mark Cole

In this episode of the Tenkara Cast, Daniel sits down with Mark Cole to discuss the native trout of Colorado and Mark’s pursuit of catching and documenting each of Colorado’s native trout with his wife Judy.

4 Responses to Chasing Colorado’s Native Trout with Mark Cole

I haven’t been fly fishing for long, but because of podcasts like this, I am learning a lot about natural history, and human involvement in shaping our fisheries. Just finished reading Halverson’s ‘An Entirely Synthetic Fish’ and this was a great follow up. Keep up the good work and interesting guests. Thanks!!

I agree, best of the best! So informative, particularly for those of us with an interest in Colorado’s natives. Please let Mark and his colleagues know that their efforts in Timberline, etc., were not a total loss. First, mistakes happen. We learn and move on.

Personally, I took my daughter up there last summer hunting “Greenbacks” (only vaguely aware that they weren’t the “real” Greenbacks — now I know a lot more!). She got hooked on Tenkara after seeing the beautiful fish up there, watching them behave, and helping me land them. She grabbed the rod and between us we caught and released many, many fish on an Amano Sakasa Kebari. It was such a memorable day for both of us, and she’s now a Tenkara chic…a dad’s dream come true!